Magical selling-kiosk.



MAGICAL SELLING KIGSK,

APPLICATION HLED APR. 7 1915.

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UNTTED TATE PATENT MAGICAL SELLING-KIOSK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

" Fatented Jan. 25, 1916.

- Application filed April '7, 1915. Serial No. 19,771.

'1 b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. CARL JOHAX FREDRIK Onnssox, a sub ect of the King of Sweden,

r ding at Stockholm, in the Kingdom of have invented a new and useful of which the followon a perpendicular column arranged in the middle" of the house. In the column there is an opening to allow of a hand or an arm being thrust through, in addition to which the interior of the house is illuminated by means of six lamps (electric lamps) two' of which are so placed that their images in the mirrors can be seen through the window of the house by a person outside the said house, while, on the other hand, the other lamps are so placed that their images cannot be seen from the outside. The'whole arrangement gives the illusion that a hand unattached to a body is thrust out from the column.

The drawing shows a tion of the invention.

Figure 1 shows a magical selling kiosk seen from the front. Fig. 2 is a section along the line a-b in left. Fig. 3 shows a section along 0-cZ in Fig. 1, seen from above.

The magical selling kiosk consists of a rectangular house 1, which, by means of vertical mirrors 2 and 3, is divided into two rooms, the back room 4 and the front room 5, of which, the back room e is intended as the place where the person shall be stationed that attends to the selling in the kiosk, 2'. 0., that person whose hand is to serve the customers.

One of the edges of each-of the two vertical mirrors, 2 and 3, which are arranged at an angle of L5 to the walls, rests on the side of thehouse, while the other edge of each of the mirrors rests onthe side of a 'column 10, which is U-shaped in transverse section, and which reaches from the floor 11 of the interior room to its ceiling 12. In the column at a certain height there is arranged an opening 13, through which the person in room 4 who attends to the kiosk, can thrust out his (her) hand.

The sidewalls 15 and the door 16, through the latter of which entrance is gained to form of constructhe line "lamps 21 and 26 Fig. 1, seen from the angle of 45.

room 4, consist of boards, and in a front door, 6, by means of which entrance is gained to the front room 5, there is put in window-glass 17; so rat it is possible to look into the house 'rom outside. In the door there is made an opening 7, and in this opening there is inserted a wooden slab 18. Through the opening the articles are reached out and placed on the wooden slab. Under the wooden slahthere is attached to the door a box 20, on hich the articles are laid out visible from the outside. The opening 7 and the slab 18 are arranged at such a distance from the column 10, that they can easily be reached by the person that is in the room 4.

lnteriorly the room 5 is illuminated by (in the drawing six are shown), of which two, 26,'arc so arranged that their images in the mirrors 2 and 3 are visible through the window 17 by people outside the house. The foremost lamps 21, on the other hand, are so arranged that their images are not visible from outside, and they can, therefore, be moved (either intentionally or not) without destroying the illusion that there is no person inside the kiosk. In order for it to be possible for the person inside room i to be. able to serve the customers, it is, of course, necessary for him or her to be able to see the articles and his (her) own hand. For this purpose there are in the ceiling 12, two openings 22, a front one and a back one, above which there are placed two mirrors 23, arranged at an Under the farthermost of these mirrors ther is also arranged a mirror 24, the reflecting surface of which is turned upward so that the person that looks into it can see clearly what is taking place at the opening. In the front side of the house there is an opening 25 in which coins are to be placed. T he coins run through a tube 14:, arranged along the side of the house and fall down intoa box which is arranged in the room 4E.

The illusion that arises'with such an apparatus is, that a hand is seen to stick qut from a very narrow column, 6., a column of such small dimensions that it would be impossible to suppose that a person can be inside it. Thanks to the mirrors 2 and 3, the illusion is complete, and the whole of the kiosk appears to be empty, with a free space around the column 10, which is placed in the middle and around which one can apparently walk without meeting with any hind 'anc( The ceiling and floor are clad with a covering which is undulatory in shape, or is of some suitable form, and the waves of which further contribute to increase the optical illusion. The same is the case with the interior surfaces of the side-walls, which are clad with some suitable coverin I claim.

1. In a magical selling kiosk the combination of a house, one wall of which is provided with window-glass and an opening, a column in the house, which column has an opening for the thrusting through of the hand and arm, vertical mirrors extending from said column and placed at an angle with each other, dividing the house into two rooms, a front room and a back room, and lamps arranged in the front room.

2. In a magical selling kiosk the combination of a house, one wall of which is pro,- vided with window-glass and an opening, a column in the house, which column has an opening for the thrusting through of the hand and arm, vertical mirrors extending fromv said column and placed at an angle with each other, dividing the house into two rooms, a front room and a back room, lamps arranged in the front room, a slab arranged in the front room with an opening in the wall, and mirrors arranged at such an angle that the image from the slab is visible in the back room.

CARL JOHAN FREDRIK OHLSSOII Witnesses:

CARL O. SAHLBERG, FRANK A. LYON. 

